a16z Podcast

  • Crypto Creators: On Art Galleries to ‘Tokenized’ Collectibles

    This episode features Q&As with two artists who are exploring crypto-powered auction sites and marketplaces – this is part of our ongoing series on the creator economy. The big picture is that emerging “tokenization” models,…

  • What to Know about Those Vaccines

    A vaccine for COVID seems to be (almost) here… or is it? What’s hype/ what’s real beyond the headlines (and beyond the press release), when it comes to the announcement last week from Pfizer and…

  • The Social Serendipity of Cloud Gaming

    True cloud-native games—those exclusive to and solely playable within the cloud—are poised to revolutionize gameplay and unlock new avenues of hyper-personalized storytelling and socializing. It’s a vision that, though steadily advancing, is still in its…

  • The Great Data Debate

    Lakes v. warehouses, analytics v. AI/ML, SQL v. everything else… As the technical capabilities of data lakes and data warehouses converge, are the separate tools and teams that run AI/ML and analytics converging as well?…

  • How to Moderate Talks, Panels, Meetings, More (Virtual and Beyond!)

    How to moderate good, productive discussions and navigate tricky conversations is top of mind — whether doing a panel, conducting a live event, presenting a talk (or hosting a podcast), managing (and even just participating…

  • Textiles as Tech, Science, Math, Culture… or Civilization

    “The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they’re indistinguishable from it.” That quote from computer scientist Mark Weiser is from a 1991 paper where…

  • Data Alone Is Not Enough: The Evolution of Data Architectures

    Data, data, data – it’s long been a buzzword in the industry, whether big data, streaming data, data analytics, data science, even AI & machine learning — but data alone is not enough: it takes…

  • Designing for, Marketing to, and Partnering With Gen Z

    Gen Z—those born between 1995 and 2010—now makes up 35 percent of the population and represent $143 billion dollars in spending power. This episode is all about how brands can better understand, collaborate with, and…

  • The Present Future of Audio: Talk, Music, Video, Interactivity

    We’ve already talked a lot about podcasting, both evolution of the industry as well as the form, but where are we going with the future of audio, more broadly? Can we borrow from the present…

  • Tracking the Trends: AI, WebRTC, Crypto, and Full Stack Startups

    Today’s episode is a conversation about four big trends in the tech world. Any one of these trends would be notable on its own, but we cover all four in this hallway-style chat, as a16z…

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